Carnival Cowpuncher Lyrics

Carnival Cowpuncher lyrics

Little partner, you've done very well

    In every virtue worth
weighing

    Now that the carnival's come into town,

    We have
reason for playing



    I gave you an apple, caramel and all

   You stood laughing at me

    Keep it anyway, think if they last

 
  The fruits of today



    Questioning friends can so bring on the
blush of a lover

    "Some have one favorite, while some have another"



    Take the merry-go-'round when it slows to a crawl

    Take
the horse next to mine

    Reach for my hand -- aiming true, we can
span,

    Hands clasped, the aisle while we're running



   
Take in the whirl of the world for a while

    The calliope's mad,
drunken grind

    My heart took to skipping in threes

    (Kiss me
now, kiss me please)



    Little partner, you move very well

   Even this has me thinking:

    How you tip back a bottle of beer

   By the neck when you're drinking



    Has something about it, a
devil-take-all

    A boyish and arrogant air

    May your
boyishness never be calmed,

    Never be tamed!



    The
world is a wasteland of terrible taste

    For it's left you unloved and
resigned

    But here is my apple -- to hell with them, anyway!

   
Why mirror them, why be unkind?



    Take the merry-go-'round when
it slows to a crawl

    Take the horse next to mine

    Reach for
my hand -- aiming true, we can span,

    Hands clasped, the aisle while
we're running

    

    Take in the whirl of the world for a
while

    The calliope's old, mocking grind...